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Girl pitches perfect game against boys

Brownell has struck out 32 of 33 Little League batters she’s faced

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Pitcher perfect
May 20: WGRZ-TV’s Lynne Dixon reports on an 11-year-old New York girl who pitched a perfect game in a boy’s baseball league.

OAKFIELD, N.Y. - Katie Brownell isn’t just the only girl playing on her Little League team. She’s dominant.

The shy 11-year-old pitched a perfect game Saturday for her Dodgers team. In two games on the mound, she’s struck out 32 of 33 batters in the Oakfield-Alabama Little League program.

She’s also batting .714 through the team’s first three games.

“She’s been pitching for three years, but she really came on and excelled this year,” said team manager Jeff Sage. “She bats really well. She’s a solid, all-around ballplayer.”

Oakfield-Alabama officials can’t remember anybody — boy or girl — ever throwing a perfect game in this western New York locale between Buffalo and Rochester.

Katie was almost pulled out of Saturday’s game until the scorekeeper reminded her coach she had a no-hitter going. Katie then kept mowing down the opposition, and when the last batter was fanned, the crowd erupted.

“Everybody congratulated me,” she said.

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